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THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES
Chapter
THE CICONS--THE FRUIT OF THE LOTOS-TREE--POLYPHEMUS
AND THE CYCLOPS--THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDs, AND
GOD AEOLUS' FATAL PRESENT -- THE LAESTRYGONIAN
MAN-EATERS.
THIS history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses
and his followers in their return from Troy,
after the destruction of that famous city of Asia by
the Grecians. He was inflamed with a desire of
seeing again, after a ten years' absence, his wife and
native country Ithaca. He was king of a barren spot,
and a poor country, in comparison of the fruitful
plains of Asia which he was leaving, or the wealthy
kingdoms which he touched upon in his return : yet
wherever he came, he could never see a soil which
appeared in his eyes half so sweet or desirable as his
country earth. This made him refuse the offers of
the goddess Calypso to stay with her, and partake
of her immortality, in the delightful island ; and this
gave him strength to break from the enchantm . . .
